Safar Muhammad

Safar Muhammad (14 June 1979-16 January 2015) was a military commander of Hezbollah. He was killed during the Syrian Civil War.

Biography
Safar Muhammad was born on 14 June 1979 in Tyre, Lebanon to a Sunni Muslim family. Muhammad became a member of Hezbollah in 1996 at the age of 17 and was a key planner of several suicide attacks against the government of Lebanon and against Israel. Safar Muhammad rose to command a brigade of Hezbollah fighters during the Syrian Civil War, and he fought against the Free Syrian Army alongside the Syrian Arab Army, whose leader President Bashar al-Assad protected Hezbollah. Safar Muhammad was killed by an Israeli artillery bombardment in Al Kiswah, 20 miles northeast of the border with Israel in the Golan Heights.